[bomp] Sneaky underage rock & roll behavior

["Deena J Canale" <roots66@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>     So you'd think.  But considering the fact that I knew a couple of 14
> year-olds who were at the Dive in '85, you probably wouldn't've had a
> problem.  (Same thing was true up at Scorgie's in Rochester, by the way.)
> Sure was easier for girls than guys, though!

I'll bet none of those girls had a mom as relatively strict as mine!!!
Maybe strict ain't the right word, but she sorta "raised me like a veal," as
Howard Stern once complained about Ben and Ray Stern's parenting techniques.
My older siblings had some drug problems in their younger days, and my
parents were convinced the combination of rock & roll and lenient Dr.
Spock-style parenting was the culprit--consequently, ME they watched like a
hawk, even though I made a solemn vow to myself to not even smoke a joint!!!
[I did drink, sometimes to the point of blotto, but strictly as a social
lubricant--Sara T. I was not!  The lyrics to Suicidal Tendencies'
"Institutionalized" pretty much sum up the kind of interaction I'd have with
my folks at the time, though I'd have probably asked for 7-Up instead of
Pepsi.]  Sunday hardcore matinees at CBGBs were about the best I could
manage at 16...after much pleading from me she did allow a few big nighttime
gigs like the Ramones, Billy Bragg, the Pogues or the Pixies once I hit 17,
but I didn't get to have an active rock & roll nightlife until I moved into
the Hunter dorms at 18.  A bit embarrassing to admit this now, but ska was
one of my major things around that time--the New Year's Eve party we went to
last night featured a lot of ska and two-tone on its varied musical menu,
and it was a bit like stepping back rather than forward in time for me.

Speaking of the Ramones...in addition to the aforementioned Flushing Meadows
gig, for two consecutive years (ca. '88 and '89), they actually played a
couple of charity gigs for some Catholic youth organization at a Catholic
grammar school on Springfield Blvd. in Queens Village!!!  I guess they owed
somebody a big favor, but perhaps this was purely out of the kindness of
their hometown hearts.  One night they were headlining the Ritz, the next
night they were doing a good deed for Sister Teresa Maria and Sister Maria
Teresa at Our Lady of Lourdes!!!  This was a *really big deal* among the
disaffected Catholic weirdo outcast set at the time.

"Shut up!  Sit down!  Stop actin' stupid, ya moron!"--Ben Stern, to young
Howard Stern, preserved for posterity at Ben's recording studio--and which
Howie has often played over the air as evidence he was verbally abused as a
kid.

Signed D.C.
(n.p. Joe Belock's 2nd year-end round-up show archive--more good records
came out last year than I originally thought!)

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